The Sun. — London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

Mit. ARM' IsIINOTT. Thelottottilig Letters written by this - uhforth• nate Gentleman appeared in the Aiuericau Pdj)ers A. ARBUTHNOTT TO TEIF, COSINIANDING OVFICER AT oRT c\ISI•S " Oketloktie River, March 3, 1317. is Tile head Chiefs ;eves( I will intiiiire ut you why American settlers are de•eer ding the Chata bonchie, dutein4 the poor Indian front his habi tation, aiol tak,n-z possession .1-4 his home and cul tivated helds. \Vithcut I can claim nothing trom you ; h o roane and phi'lan 'thropic lttiuciple , toe, hope the sante tn iii it , fbience von ; and it such is really the case, and that the line mat ktd out by the treaty of peace between GI eat Britain and the United States, respecting the Indian has been irtringed 'by any of the citizens of the latter, you will pt eseot to them their iatpropereontinet, anti pre vent its continuance. " I hate in niy possession a lettet.., received from the Governor NeA , novidence, addressed to by his Britamile Majesty's Chief Secret.'' y ' 'State, informing hlin ot orders given to the British Ambassador rit kVashingt on, to watch over the in terests of the faction 'notions, and see their rights are fanhpilly attended to alibi protected, agree ably to the treaty of peace made betwetn the British and the Allit/ricanS. " I am in kopeg that ere this ane is arrived at New Providence a person from Great %vith-authority to act as agcnt for the Indian na tions ; and it so, it will devolve onon hilt% to see that the boundary lines, as nottked out by the treaty, are not intringed." COPY OF A TALK SENT FROM THE DRITISH AGENT IN EAsT FLORIDA TO THE ,tIG WARRIOR, HEAD OF CHEEK NATIOS F INDIANS - When the English made pe(tee with the Anted cans,they included the wl,ole of the Indian nations, viz. Creek, Choctaw, ChickSaW, and Cherokee. Those nations were guaranteed in the quiet pus sest•iou of their lands. and the Americans engaged to give up such lands of the Indians 'as they had taken possession of during the war. - if they have not done so, or it they have been making further encroachments, the chiefs have only to represent their complaints and the ag gressions of the Americans to the Governor of New Providence. who will forward them to Ettg. land, or get 11:em conveyed the British Minis ter at Washington, who has orders from the King of England to see that the rights of the nations above mentioned are protected, and the stipula tions contained in the trewy, in their favour, are faithfully carried into execution. The Americans have no wish to go to war ; they will not, therefore, do any thing contrary to the treaty, and what encroachments have been made must be without the knowledge of the Chief of the American Government ; and so soon as he is informed thereof by the British Minister at NVashington, he will order the American people who have taken possession of Indian lauds to draw I),tok to their own possessions. The Indian nations are all one great family they possess lands their great forefathers hamied down to them, and they ougitt to band them down entire to their children, If they sell their land, what do they receive for it ? Nothing that will last. It is wasted away in a few years.— Whether, therefore, they sell or give it away, they arc robbing their children of the inheritance they had a right to expect. As a great Family they ought to live as such with each other; let the four nations join in bonds of brotherly love ; let thein smoke the pipe of peace ; let the culti vation of their lands be their chief ohject during spring and summer, and hunting their diversion during winter, and the produce of their labour will be bought by good people, who will come and deal with them when they know there is any 'thing to be purchased for goods or money. .11 the AtthAcans or other nations live near them, let them live in friendship with them, and keep up a good understanding, but on no account sell or give away any of their lands. I recom mend this as a friend of humanity and of good 'order. A. ARBUTEINOTT. Okolokne, March IT, •1817. The head chiefs of the Upper Creek nation have &sited me, Opnr:v, to get the straight for them : what is written in the foregoing I believe to be the true and straight talk received from an Englishman who cart led two Deputies to New Providence, and has returned with them to Oko lokne. I, Oponey. have been sent by you, the head chiefs of the Upper Creek nation, to see the Seminole Indians ; I have done so ; they live , quietly and peaceably, and wish to do so, with all their Red brethren in every part of the nu:ion. Opoy Uatcho has desired me to see those things: I have done so ; and see all quiet, and had the talk I now send you, and shaken hands with the friend who gave it me. That the friend I hive met came over with goods by desire of the chiefs of the lower tow , ns, and is a true friend to the Indians. The vat ions and untrue talks that you send nte front time to time, must be mtde by some person, an enemy to all us Red brethren, and ought not to be listened to ; let me know who they are, and send Inc an answer as soon as possible to the present talk. OPONEY, his >1 Mark. NVritten by order of the aforesaid Oponey, the Ilth March, 1817. A. ARBUTHNOTT. ARON MORN. Witness, TREASURES OF THE TIBER.---l\ machine has recently been invented to drag the river 'Fiber, from the Bridge Alone as far. as San Paolo, to te cover the precious objects which it is generally thought are buried in its bed. Many people, are persuaded that the golden candlesticks of Jerusa lem will he found ; however, should the pro ject of finding these objects (which, perhaps, have not been thrown into the river) fail, great hones are entertained of obtaining some saleable irltitsities, although in a bad state: The design cannot be carried into effect this year, on account of the increase of its waters, which takes place annually in Autumn. AIANCIIESTER COTTON SPINNER:). . . To this Country, which depends SO much upon the iimbackled efforts of industrious enterprise, and particularly in the town where this paper is published, the \spirit of combination which has prevailed for so many weeks is of no little in terest. It is therefore no wonder that the sub ject should take the lead of every thing else under the local bead. " Ate the Spinners gone in has been a question every Monday morning for the last six weeks. Last week, the answer Was in the affirmative, as far as regarded one of tilt many cotton-mills of Manchester and its vici nity. However, the surprise abated, When it was understood that his interest in tlrtt mill would cease in a few months, by the termination of a lease ; so that it did not appear that he hail the same personal interest to resist the' dictatorial prin ciples of the combination, as those proprietors whose property in the vast monuments of the ap plication of .scieuce to the purposes of art, ren ders an opposition to the insubordinate spirit of dictation of such vital co:isequence to themselves, intik idually, as well as to tt►e continued welfa►re and future interests of the nation. A resistance to the demands of the working spinners is therefore still persevered in by (licit employers, on whom the eye of the s king dom is now fixed, since they are to determine the qnestion whether the envied pre-eminence of this country, as the seat of manufactures, shall he sus tained, or be transplanted to the Coniinent, where the wages of workmen are low indeed, and where nothing hot Biitish capital is want ing to raise the fabric ? This is not a question iotetesting only to the proprietors of spinning factories, hut to the whole nation. 'fie de mood of the spinners, individually, for an increase of payment for their labours, would be of little interest out of their own houses, *lid those o f thei r enployers ; but the principle they act upon is not only of general interest, but calls for resistance, since it strikes at the root of that freedom of com inert c which tempts men of fortune to vest capital in business, and bullish employment to so mapy thousands of their fellow-creatures, who have ii article but their industry to bring into the national market, in exchange for the comforts they have Ili, other weans to attain. But the destructive principle is not confined to the spinners; its poison is Homing in th e vein• of very many of the working classes enea,...ed io other occupations. It has been ascertained, that a par: of the funds of m►tny Friendly Societies, whicl► by law arc appropriated to the use of sick and infirm members, or for providing decently for the last sad and melancholy duties owing to mor tality, have been made use of in support of v,,hin tary idleness and secret combination ; a mal-ap propriation, for which the members may have to answer individually, and which may have the ef fect of ultimately removing the protection of the law from such Societies, which are so Well calcu lated to render very much real and substantial benefit, in times of unavoidable calamity, brit which the Spirit we complai❑ of has perverted to evil. By this demoralizing destructive spirit was a meeting organized and conducted in this town (as it appears) on Wednesday last, calling itself " A General Meeting of Trades," when a set of resolutions were entered into, which have for their tendency the fullest com , roni 00 the part of the employed over the property of their em ployers ; resolutions which in themselves prove the danger which threatet►s the manufacturing and mercantile interests of this country. We have seen a copy of these resolutions, and they will bear its out in hazarding an opinion, that Government will now think it proper to interfere, since the legislative authority is assumed by a self-created power, arrogating to itself the right of manag,ing the of airs of men of capital, and of keeping them in subordination and obedience to its let %VS, Those laws, however, are in themselves amenable to those of the land, by which, we have no doubt, they will be speedily examined. The resolutions we have alluded to, furnish in themselves a volume of intelligence. 'nit!y stand in need of no comment : for ." he that rut's may read." We trust they will not pass unnoticed where the power to enforce respect to existing laws is deposited; nor in that [louse (when it meets), where it is a duty on the part of the Members to watch with a j e alous e ye, a nd firmly to resist ever y encroachment on liberty,i.vhe ther made by men in power ahusing the authority with which they are invested, or by a com bination of the numerical strength of the many, to seize upon the property of the few. 1n oppo sition to this principle, the laws have already be gun to act, and William Temple, Robert Nicholls, Richard Fairbrother, Peter Wakefield, George Bancroft, Charles Clarke, Thomas Berwick, Henry Wild, and George Webb, Cotton Spinners, from the neighbourhood of 'Manchester, were committed, on Friday last, to Lancaster Castle, under an indictment found at the present Assizes against them, and several others, for a couTiracy to raise their wages. It► the mean time we are pleased to learn► that the Master Spirners, and many of their confiden tial servants, have been sworn in special consta bles, in order to enable them the more effectually to afford protection to such of the operative spinners whose good sense may induce them to leave the combination and return to their duty, from which many of them have been kept by vio lence. Yesterday (Monday) several availed then►- selves of this protection, and returned to their employment, not a little happy, it is natural to conclude, on once more resenting the sober ha bits of industry.—Manchester Herold, Aug. 25.) DISGRACEFUL OuTßAGs.—These few nights past several respectable females have been grossly maltreated by a set of idle and disorderly, boys, who parade the Strand every evening after dark for the purpose. The manner is, when !hey find au unprotected female pass along, to pull brr forcibly op a court and throw her clothes over her head, and drag her along in a state of n udity. On Tuesday night an elderly lady and a young woman; residing in Deumark•passege, th" used. rORTUGUE3E SLAVE TRADE. The King of PORTUGAL has published a ;loyal akteura, or law, dated Rio Janeiro, May 6, 1818, to enforce the articles of `the late Convention with the British GovernMero for the Abohlton of the Slave Trade, north of the Equator. It fixes the penalties io which those traders are liable who engage in the prohibited traffic, and makes the necessary regulations tor the piotecuion and support of those slaves who, in conseyience of these penalties, shall be declared free. 'The fol lowing are some of its provisions Art. I. All persons, of whatsoever quality or condition, who shall proceed to fit out or prepare vessels for the traffic in slaves, in any part of the Coast of Africa, lying north of the Equator, shall incur the penalty or the loss of the slaves, who shall be declared tree, with a destination herein afterwards mentioned. The vessels engaged iu the traffic shall be confiscated, with all their tackle and appurtenances, together with the cargo, of whatever it consist, which shall be on board on account ,of the owners or freighters of such vessel, and the owners tit such slavei. The officers of such vessel, to wit, the Captain or Master, the Pilot and Supercargo, shall he ba nished for five years to Alosambique, and each shall pay a fine equivalent to the pay or other in terests which be was to gain by the adventure. Policies of insurance cannot be made on sueh Yes.; seas, or their cargoes : and if they are Made, the. , assurers who shall knowingly make them, shall he condemned in nipple the amount of the stipu lated premium). Art. 2. The same penalty of the loss of the slaves shall attach to persons of whatever rank or condition, who shall import slaves into Brazil in foreign vessels. Art. 3 declares, that one half of the confis cated property shall be given to the informer, and the other brought into the Royal Treasury. If there is no informer, the whole produce of the cargo, and the whole sum of the tine, shall go to Cie Royal Treasury. - Art. 4 regulates the 'node a proceeding in cases where tile information is given, fixes the Audio ritu.s before wnoni the prosecution is to be brought, awl a pp.,ii}ts the manner in which the sentence is to be executed. Art. 5. Pic slaves consigned to the Royal Trea sury, and all those declared free by the above-ar ticle (as it would be unjust to abandon them with out support), shall he delivered op to the Judge of the district. betme whom the condemnation shall take place (whose powers shall be enlarged with that jurisdiction), to serve as freed men for 14 years, in any public service of the navy, the fortresses, agriculture, or public offices, as may be thought most convenient, being for that pur pose enrolled in the respective stations ; or shall be hired out to individuals of known property and probity, who shall be bound to support, clothe, and instruct them, teaching them some handicraft or labour that maybe agreed upon, doting the stipulated period ; the terms and the conditions of which shall be renewed as often as necessary, till the 14 years are expired ; the time of servitude may be shortened by two or more years, according as the good conduct of those persons way entitle them to the enjoyment of full freedom. In case those treed mesr are' destined for the public service, the officer who shall have authority in the respective station to which they are assigned, ,shall nominate a person capable of fixing their term, - who' shall be responsible for their education and treatment. They shall have as curator a person of knots n piobity, who shall be nominated every three years by the Judge, and approved of by the Judicial Council or Go-. vernor, and Captain General of the Province. To him it shall belong w provide every thing which may contribute to their well being, to rectity abuses that !bay affect them, to procure them re lease after their pre per term of service, and en force generally for their benefit the observance of the laws prescribed for the protection of orphans, in as •far as those laws are applicable to them, to the end that whatever is ordered concerning them may be strictly executed. Art. G. In the ports to the south of the Equator, where the traffic in slaves is still permitted, the regulations passed in the law of the 24th of No vember, ISI3, shall be observed with the follow ing modifications :—The distinction between ves sels which shall exceed, or shall not exceed 201 tons, shall be abolished, and the number of slaves shrill be regulated according to the tonnage of the vessel, in the proportion of five to every two tons. It shall be allowed to the persons ry ho own or freight slave-vessels, to use indiscriminately iron or copper kettles, provided the latter every voyage be tinned anew. It surgeons du, not sail on board such vessels, on account of the impossihility procuring them, the owners shall obliged to, carry with them black sangradores., experienced= in the treatment ot. the diseases nith which the slaves are commonly afflicted. Art. 7. Till the commerce in slaves is changed by new regulations, the importation of slaves into Brazil, from any ports where the traffic is not prohibited, is permitted. The usual order to enforce this law is subjoined.- GUILDFORD Abhi Z Es.— )11 consequence of an order having been received by H. PETERS, F,Sli High Sheriff of the County, to carry into etreci the sentence of the Court on the capital convicts left for execution at the I . ast Guildford Assizes, Monday next is appointed for the execution of the following unfortunate criminals for forgery ; W m. Cook, for burglary ; and H Park, tor tiit like offence. CAUTION To PUBLICANS.—MoOday, a man and woman, of respectable appeara ce; went into the back parlour of the King's 1-lead public-house in Great 0: Mond -street, where after drinking a glass of brandy and water (which they paid for at go ing out), they contrived to rob a chest of drawers in the room of several articles, and likewise took a time-piece front off the chimney-piece. The articles were missed shortly after their depar ture, when a pursuit took place, but they effected their-escape. Thursday se'nuiAt, two valuable mares, the property of Mr. Thomas Cann, farmer, of Wy mondham, got to his , barn, and partook of a quantity of wheat ; every attempt to remove it from the stomachs of these annuals proved in vain, and they both died on the faolving day. POLICE INtELLIG ENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE.' .et 6 yea A ls r o k f Tl a r g u e l , ‘ C ra ig c h ."--- rot i t l glit tli b li et g ot 7 e .° l l" h a e n tila a g i t it'f.o . ll , -. 7) by a o ff icer of Chiswick; in &der to he passe".‘,.., her palish. On being eXaniined, she stated be ' a self to be an orphan ; she had no friend ill lb world except one distant relation residing at Strat ford ; she gained a settlement at Lambeth bf servitude, aud the last place She held "'a ß e • Flert-street. Some young M ~. en in the house 7; having, improperly to her, she corrtnniniCalea circumst ante to her mistress ; the etinserlocl''.4 was, she was obliged to qui l t her place it tile Of the month ; she engaged with another liafti! who went after her character ; her list bar tress said she was sober and honest , —4 t belt character was not satisfactory , she tookd not be taken. The people she lodged tnened her out after she had spear °„; her money ; she wandered a b ou t th r ee days food, and strolled into the conutty with the il l : tention of getting into the woods and starving b et : sell; btit this mode of depriving bet self of life brill too moth to bear, she tbon t iht the nw s... ex{ed i C il o way to deprive beisell of lite Wi-C to 1110 , V0 b e . - 41 ti self, arid went to a pond for this dreadful When soine person met ber aod brought her to t Workhouse: Slte wept . bitter IV, and her va e , r e ii : cited the commiseration of all present. --4 Magistrate commended the girl for her virtoe , f w directed the officer, ho Ind e e 'd a ppeared tO u - ot i very humane m,lll, to take pr open ePre of her, a `;' obtant her stich a situation as will restore character, • GUILDHALL. • Cuafous Cxs--A young wolin namedtn, Lydi Green, was yesterday brought td the Office, a ll : i 1 examined before Mr. Alderman iIsvGAM v P ° th e following charge n e tfr John Davis said he was shopinan to hosier, of Cheapsitle. At about three welock.'ir Tuesday afternoon, he was very busily efolleet With a crowd of customers, ~,oven the I ,,ii,u: rif f rushed into the shop, and seizing a bundle of 11 .;i : stockings (sixteen in nnuther) ran off. " i n ' el instantly j ,, mped over the counter and her into the street, but his master, is ho a lso tressed the transaction, had already seized he r 'dr The p:is , wer being asked if site bad any ltz fence to offer, replied tixtil;iogly, With ISII " \u." A 11 . 1 3611 This conduct gave rise to suspicion, so" irocti a more minute investigation of the case , it ti ' m ad out that the husband of the prisoner 11" (1 o h, time since been sent to the hulks at Sbe cr : ," i • tt at, and determined, it possible, to be - his coolP 3 " she committed the clime in triestion. 8 9 ll ' The Magistrate thought the case a s clea r 0 was audacious. w et , 'The witness Davis said his master was e.stre-10', unwell, and did trot wish to prosecute' would not do it himself for all the world. n 0 5 Mr. Beresford, the Clerk, said lie mast Y r ( lid cute. It was a public thing, a nd n eithe r witness or his master could evade it. d er° 4 The witness said he was sorry for it ; tr..t laughed, and said she was most . at Davis was then bound over to prosecute, Lydia Green was fully committed for trial. 130\V-STREET'. 11 0 / STEALING A CLOCK —Yeverdav Josep h was charged on suspicion of stealing a elt)c" oto p property of some person or persons It appeared that yesterday morning , a b ' ut ,role'.' past eight o'clock, Thomas Aliddleton, a r belonging to the offic w p e, as (us in th ro ;,rii China-w aik, Chelsea, \Alien he ob,erved tit , pit , sorer proceeding up Manor-street, tli t tita C , being a thoroughfare, he had no data I): : tri o( , be went there to avoid him. Ile purs oet! I t hre l , • and when be came up to him, the piiso , ' e ti ts ' away a bundle he had tied up in an al" ii ',,yeet ran off. The cry of " slop th iet we' i s 1 1 , ( 0 0 , and he wit! secured. The brindle he 11 °, 1 , bel" away Proved to be a clock. hisener 11 " os ses # able to give a satisfactory account of his ist,ltirtal Sinn of it, was committed for frirther „ eo a req., 1 1, ATTEMPTED SUICIDP--VesterliaY ", IP; ably dressed female was brong.br UnttO,: . ki;(1 1 charged with assaulting her husband, Noroperi wards, of Maid-lane, in a most 0 01 ° 1( i :140 e' When she was himight into the (are 511- ' the officers lint to take her before the M 3 g' s r AS she had never been in such a place in (te r Iler husband not having arrived to . 1 0 die t ti son ell charge, site was locked tip in the p 00 95 back of the office until he arrived. She e ivi 'd d ttl e e great horror at being put into a riS"' Tile 0 C ed tdeeply when the keeper left htr• at vt a h r o being under repair, a painter, , ‘lto was ig; neat the prisim-grate, heard a hand gio rou4b , ett or ran to the spot, and,, on looking l b , ow boc c i Mrs. Edwards hanging from the win" rouo d a handkerchief which site had ti ag fleck. He iminediately gave an ni3idni s i,'e Wa sc of keeper Opening the door of the rrion areo d , 'down ; she was not quite dead, but P re r co ce." insensible. lit a shot t time she was , elia r tg and her hush:tilt; declining pressing h is o,o' against her, the case was dischargtl, all y ea ri hom.ast e, w wee ith k, him. h eniP oot tijoy nd Las a fine little boy , a dg - of age, was looking at the workrnerit.ivy 13r i 0 0 blotting the rocks in the river a wh erebY o o' a large fragment tell on his head( Jell t he 00 ( What r e ."" e the p es (§ brains were knocked out. fortunate catastrophe wor e this e ss ,"! - "'holY la t h" el the child received the met 3 ' oors e of his own mother's demise Inter c . , hour after the accident. _ • • • . ~....---------,....------r. ' 2r7 _ - - - ----- ;c iorin' - BIRTES• 1g ri• o f On the 14th inst. in Smith-street, Chelsea' cs c i,di of a daughter. s:00, th On the ;24th inst. at Drayton Rectory, '-'7 the Res. William Lloyd, of a datiglster• .. itei t ' ' • ' rcf'° & lo° ls DIED. . 00•• sir- On Saturday last, in Cecil-street, CaP t ` l f iti t lic I . 3°' a lar i" of the East India Company's service, so" °- ' Si " 11'1 0 1 L ' i c Sun d ay tt ; l3ait r . uorning; Henry Nov l4 ' l. ' Ps'. of ~ , .if. Cr ea` borough -street, in the ' mit h veal of his "4 e s :o/4 1 ' 47' de O rit i . v . i l s ‘ c la l e 2 t. i , li ii ii i i t s : t t ant t , zsizen-7,10, kirs.,Ati• .___,„..,iiies. ps e.is -ma • . ..........•""----.,. O b sf. 1 ,4 ..................-- ~.............. ----- of r 0 wi v. LONDON: Printed 1,173. B. CARSTAlO„'f,ll4lcjtllia°olo" , • Ormond-Street, Qm•-eii.-quare; aill P - „..t, a - q , - SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South r.slolloo-4;issell'ea. / F T ()time, No. 112, Strand ; where Ads; c . a h o cd* h LAI . - I t ki, &e. ,that -paid) moot bc adtil" - 4 , • ./ 1 40 eta, *n om gt e ,